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1. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… to Palestine. On September 8, 1945, eighty young men and women from the Kibbutz arrived in Haifa, one of the first large survivor's group to reach…
2. British Defence Medal 1939-1945 ribbon awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
2003.361.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.18
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… Battalion, Palestine Regiment. In the immediate postwar period he was stationed in the British Zone in Germany where he helped trace missing persons and aided…
3. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription
2015.563.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.2
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--Palestine.…
4. Sterling silver bracelet charm of Hitler hanged in a noose acquired by a US soldier
2005.432.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.432.1
Date:
received: 1943 February
…Small silver pendant depicting Hitler hanged purchased as a souvenir by William Beck, a United States soldier, in Tel Aviv, Palestine, in February…
5. Fighter against the Nazis Medal and box awarded to Jewish Brigade veteran
2003.361.17 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.17 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…, 1967, and the medal several years later. Gotthold was a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army, 2nd Jewish Battalion, Palestine Regiment. In the…
6. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--Palestine.…
7. Petition to bring attention to the death of Jews during World War II
Object | Accession Number: 2012.469.10
Date:
publication/distribution: 1943 June 15-1943 June 15
Title:
Petition of Children of Eretz Israel
…Palestine…
8. Miniature book of sketches made by camp prisoners for Dr. Arthur Kessler
2019.183.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.183.3
Date:
creation: 1943
… place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on lathyrism and became the director of the Allergy…
9. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… arrived in Palestine. He contracted malaria and, while wandering the streets of Tel Aviv, met Ruth Edith Elsoffer. She took Ernest in and cared for him…
10. Red monogrammed knit purse made by Fanni Reznicki in a forced labor camp
2007.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.151.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… had seen her father recently in the town. She reunited with her father, and they relocated to Germany in 1945. Fanni was able to get to Palestine that…
11. Period counterfeit Palestinian Currency Board money, 5 Palestine pound note
2017.628.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.628.21
Date:
use: after 1939 April 20-before 1948 September 15
…Period counterfeit Palestinian Currency Board money, 5 Palestine pound note…
12. Anti-Nazi, zoo animal caricature, printed in Palestine
2019.7.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.7.5.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940-1945
Title:
Nazi Zoo
…Anti-Nazi, zoo animal caricature, printed in Palestine…
13. Anti-Nazi caricature, discouraging revealing information, published by Palestine Government
2019.7.5.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.7.5.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940-1945
…Anti-Nazi caricature, discouraging revealing information, published by Palestine Government…
14. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… sailed with the first group of Kibbutz Buchenwald members and immigrated to Palestine, arriving in Haifa on September 8, 1945. A few months later she…
15. Textile with embroidered names
2015.563.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.3
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--Palestine.…
16. Embroidered Ukrainian blouse worn by a Jewish woman living under an assumed identity
Object | Accession Number: 2012.243.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1945
… with Bricha members. They went to Italy, then left for Palestine. Palestine was ruled by the British who restricted immigration. The group was captured…
17. Announcement for a prayer and public fast in honor of victims of the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2010.230.1
Date:
commemoration: 1943 December 21
Artwork Title:
Memorial Prayer for the Great Day of Fasting
…Jerusalem (Palestine) (historic)…
18. Dark red floral head covering worn by a Jewish woman living under an assumed identity
Object | Accession Number: 2012.243.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1945
… with Bricha members. They went to Italy, then left for Palestine. Palestine was ruled by the British who restricted immigration. The group was captured…